Improvement in shoe-brushes



A. WORTHINGTON. .SHOE-BRUSH.

N.PETERS. PHOTO-LKTHGGRAPHER. wASHxNGTON. D C.

v material capable ofbein g applied with a brush.

v and after being emptied of the blacking found handle and blacking-receptacle detached from provided With a cap or cover at one end, and

AMASA WORTHINGTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.-

IMPRQVEMENT IN SHOE-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 1

93,308, dated July 17, 1877; application filed April 26, 1871.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AMAsA WoRTIIINeToN, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain vImprovements in Dauber-Brushes and- Blacking-Receptacles Combined, of which the following is a specification:

Thisinvention relates to that class of brushes which have a blackin g receptacle or holder attached thereto, a screw being provided where-4 by the blacking may be forced out in small quantities as required for use by means of a plunger. The receptacle may be used to contain shoe-blackin g, stove-blackin g, or any oth er Heretofore in the construction of brushes of this character the blacking receptacle has been so constructed as to form a part of the brush-stock, and' not be removable therefrom, A

in them when purchased it was necessary to refill them. The blacking-receptacle was also distinct from the handle.

Theuobject of my invention is-to provide a dauber-brush with a handle, the same being` a a detachable blacking-receptacle containing within itself the feeding mechanism, and capable of being removed when empty and replaced by another, the cost being but little, if any, greater than an ordinary box containing the same amount of blacking.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of` my invention, shown as connected with a polishing brush. Fig. 2 shows the combinedthe dauber-head. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical mid-section of the dauber complete, and Fig. 4 is a view showing the attachment of a mud-cleaning brush at the back of the dauber.

A is the handle of the dauber. This handle is, essentially, a tubular receptacle or vessel,

with a screw-thread,- i, at the other.

The shell of the handle may be of tin, or other` thin material, preferably cylindrical, as shown, but of any shape in section that taste may require.

A screw, f, of about the same length as the handle, is shown as journaled in the cap of same, being held against longitudinal play by acollar, 7c, on the inside, and a wing-nut or thumb-screw, h, secured to its tip -on the outside.

By this lastmentioned device the screw f stock of the dauber-brush B is bored at the thick edge to receive a socket, D, which is inserted therein, and securely fastened. The hollow of this socket is tapered, and communicates with a flexible tube, j, which is attached to the stock, and projects upward among the bristles of the dauber, the whole forming a conduit or passage for the blacking. A The mouth of the socket Dis screw-threaded, to lit and receive the screw-threaded end of the handle A, which may be firmly screwed therein.

The blacking is ejected in small quantities, as required, by turning the screw j', and forcing the follower down ward. After the handle A is emptied it is unscrewed and thrown away and a full one screwed on in its place.

The polishing-brush C may be conveniently attached in the manufacture tothe dauber, as shown in Fig. 1; but it is not in any way connected with the blacking-receptacle.

In Fig. 4 is shown a stiff brush for removing mud, attached to. the back of the dauber,

in lieu.l of the polishing-brush C.

Any known coupling may be used t'o connect the hollow handle with the dauber, but I prefer a screw, as described.

Having thus described my claiml. The tubular hollow handle and receptacle A, provided with a cap or cover at one end, and a screw-thread, i, on the other, in combination with a screw, j', having its bearing in some part of the handle, and a follower, e, iittingvwithin the hollow of the handle, and threaded on the screw f, when all are arranged invention, I

to forni a combined detachable handle and re ceptacle complete within itself, as herein set forth.

2.' The combination of the stock of the dauber B with the screw-threaded socket D set in the edge of the same, and arranged to receive a screw-threaded handle and receptacle, and with the elastic tube j attached to Vthe dauber-stock, as shown, and communicating with the socket D to form a conduit for the blacking, as set forth.

3. The combination of the hollow tubular handle A, provided with a cap at its outer end,

a screw-thread, i, at its open end, and a screw and follower Within the hollow of the same,

arranged to force out the blacking, with .the

stantially as specified.

.AMASA WORTHINGTON.

Witnesses':

ARTEMAS H. HOLMES, J. F. OOFFIN, Jr. 

